Che - L'argentino

Soderbergh and Che, Provocateurs

CANNES, France — On Wednesday morning festivalgoers — or at least the hordes of journalists who stumble into the Salle Lumière every day at 8:30 after a few hours’ sleep and a hasty café au lait — were given a bit of a break. In a departure, there was no competition press screening on the schedule, which provided some of us with an opportunity to glance at the trades, have a second café au lait and rest our eyes in anticipation of a long night of revolutionary struggle.
Starting at 6:30 in the evening there would be two almost simultaneous screenings of “Che,”Steven Soderbergh’s nearly four-and-a-half-hour exploration of the life of Ernesto Guevara, the asthmatic Argentine doctor who became a leader of Castro’s revolution and, posthumously, a boon to the T-shirt vendors of the world. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (8507 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 23 Maggio 2008